Multicast Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Multicast
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Multicast skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 100 -
Rank change year-on-year -35 - -
Contract jobs citing Multicast 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.089% 0.30% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.58% 2.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £584 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.40% - -
75th Percentile £651 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 £639 £700
% change year-on-year +1.80% -8.79% +12.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

Multicast falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 344 232 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.28% 13.95% 21.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 135 213
10th Percentile £209 £170 £208
25th Percentile £301 £291 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £583 £575
90th Percentile £582 £671 £688
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 19
10th Percentile £18.50 £12.18 £20.55
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.22 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +20.37% +11.34%
75th Percentile £33.00 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £49.00 £40.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -17.07% -26.39% +23.78%

Multicast
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Multicast relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Multicast job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Multicast
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Multicast.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Multicast

Multicast
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Multicast.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Multicast

Multicast
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Multicast within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham - 1 - - 2
Worcestershire - 1 £617 -
Multicast
England

Multicast
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) DMZ
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) VMware